Storage and Food Processing | American Southwest Virtual Museum Image Galleries

Numerous storage rooms within the pueblo attest to a constant preparedness for crop failure. People likely had some of last year's corn on hand at this year's harvest. Perhaps this room served for storage and food processing.

Imagine corn stacked like cordwood, or gathered foods such as piñon nuts, rice grass seeds, and juniper berries secured in clay seed jars. Water jars undoubtedly sat here too. Hours spent at these grinding stones reduced corn and seeds to flour.

Introduction to the Trail

Wupatki Pueblo and Surrounding Features

Overlook Interpretative Panel

Overlook Interpretative Panel

Living and Storage Rooms

Sunset Crater and Wupatki

Wupatki Pueblo 1930s vs. 2011

Storage and Food Processing

Air Circulation System

Unexcavated Rooms

Room 73, 1930s vs. 2011

Ballcourt Interpretative Panel

The Blowhole Interpretative Panel

Burials at Wupatki

A Ready-made Room

View from the Inside

Reconstructed Rooms, 1930s vs. 2011

A Possible Kiva

Leaving Wupatki

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